It's lucidly written, a breeze to read and erudite in assessing a vast range of literary and popular media treatments of time travel as dream and desire.' 'An engaging and entertaining look at science that will always remain fiction. The consummate temporal tour guide, Gleick deftly navigates the twists and turns of our fascination with time travel.' With a little help from Gleick, you might finally understand Interstellar.' 'Isaac Newton's biographer takes a smart, scholarly look at this science fiction staple. The Atlantic, 'The Best Books We Read in 2016'

And that's because Gleick's adventure in time travel is, in the end, not about distinctions between past and future, but a love letter to 'the unending now.'' But what could be a dizzying narrative is deftly handled.

Ultimately, Time Travel centers around a single question: Why do we need time travel? To find the answer, Gleick brilliantly stitches together moments at seemingly disparate points in history: He goes from explaining the plot of an episode of Doctor Who in one sentence to revisiting the invention of the Cinématographe in 1890s France the next. 'A brilliant, wise, insightful and mind-boggling look at the nature of time.' Time Travel is as elegant and eloquent as it is edifying.' Even though Gleick can elucidate complex ideas into accessible language, he's even better at explicating notions that remain perplexing. Gleick's hybrid of history, literary criticism, theoretical physics, and philosophical meditation is itself a time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey, and it works so well. One of the great charms of this book is its author's willingness to embrace multiple points of view and to credit art and experience as much as theory.'

'Like Wallace, Gleick's a wide-ranging enthusiast and a graceful explainer. Knowledgeable, curious and humane, Gleick proves to be the perfect tour guide for this mind-bending intellectual expedition into the past, present and future. 'Far ranging, accessible, and witty, Time Travel tackles its elusive subject from unusual angles but with fine-tuned focus. 'A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.' There isn't a paragraph in Gleick's book without good sentences and fascinating information.' A fascinating argument that the most important time is the present.' A wonderful reminder that the most potent time-traveling technology we have is also the oldest technology we have: storytelling.' 'A fascinating mash-up of philosophy, literary criticism, physics and cultural observation. A veritable theme park of playful attractions, which Mr.

Time travel a history by james gleick